I was nursing a hangover on Saturday and came across the weirdest shit ever.
To me funk music has had a major impact on my life, regarding my aesthetic, my whole being, and yes I do believe music is spiritual. Listen to some old Gap Band, James Brown, Johnny Guitar Watson, Tower of Power, you get the score. That stuff will move you.
But now they are trying to fuse funk to ice skating? Leave it to some pussy band promoter to hook up with ice skaters from who the hell knows where and then let's get, uh.. Earth Wind and Fire ?
I mean, there is art in both of them (funk and ice skating), yet they are so removed, they are art forms not needing not to be meshed, that got meshed. They just don't mesh.
Funk is really nothing but "old school' for us hippies and dreads who dug all the groovy bass lines of Low Rider by War, and just about all early seventies Stevie Wonder.
Throw Dorothy Hamill and Katarina Witt into the bowl and what you have is a very awkward television special. Dorothy doing all her graceful moves while Maurice Williams on the end of the ice rink blowing his horn like a mo'fo'. I was glad to have a hangover due to the confusion that this was causing within the neutrinos of my innermost brainwaves.
Then came the explosion that caused me to gulp three more aspirin down my gullet. The President of this here United States of America says he can wiretap any damn citizen he fancies, and to add injury to insult, he said he needed no other permission from ANYONE to do so.
I'm not a constitutional lawyer, yet I know that this mofo just TRAMPLED THE FUCK outta the Constitution and Bill of Rights. I feel it. It's so abusive that it's heartbreaking. Just as bothersome is it really didn't cause much of an uproar to the general public. Can a president really just randomly wiretap with no check so to balance that bit of awesome power?
Apparently it sure didn't take Bunnypants very long before he decided to trample on a law that was on the books that forbade this sort of behaviour. In 2002, with no one looking, he snapped his grubby little digits and issued a Secret Executive Order (it's sorta like "Double Secret Probation" in the movie Animal House ) to allow the NSA to eavesdrop without a warrant on any and all phone conversations, e-mail and other electronic communications without a warrant. For no reason at all, folks. Fuck the legality of the matter.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Sounds a little fascistic, but then it gets worse. It turns out the New York Times sat on this story for a very long time. Secret Executive Orders should immediately be reported by the press, right? That's like throwing the whole fucking Constitution, the Bill of Rights, wham, right out the window. Seems to me that's quite a story, yet they held on to it for over a year. So much for the Times. If you really start thinking about the press in bed with some form of fascist regime, go no farther than Adolf, promising all the young men and women groovy marching suits and shit if they would just not listen to those lies about killing Jewish people.
Well, there's still the internet for news. It's pitiful only one medium has the truth within, but that's the way cookies crumble when people vote into office ex-cheerleader frat boys with old coke spoons that used to drive their cars right into rows of hedges. I'm sure Bush thought at that point, sitting there drunk in his wrecked car: "This hedge should not have been here. I say so! DADDY!!!!!!!!!! Uncle Dick!!!! Get me outta jail then Kill These Hedges!!!!!!!" Man oh man I hope Karma is a real thing.
WHEN TIT WERE TITS AND NOT SOME ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS. I SAW TEMPEST AND CANDY IN THEIR HEYDAYS AT THE EL REY IN OAKLAND (THE MIDDLE FIFTIES) AND THEY COULD MAKE YOU BELIEVE IN GOD.
GOOD-BYE SWEET CANDY. VIAGRA IS JUST A DRUG, YOU WERE A DREAM.
MARTHA MENDOZA: Soldiers seek ways to get out of military (The Associated Press)
Kevin Benderman spends his days sitting in a plastic chair in the stockade at Fort Lewis, Wash., completing a 15-month sentence for "missing movement" with his unit. Jeremy Hinzman is raising his baby boy in Toronto, awaiting a court date when he hopes the Canadian government will grant him political asylum. Aidan Delgado is back in school, studying religion at the New College of Florida and practicing Buddhism. All three are among a small but growing number of soldiers who have become disillusioned with the war in Iraq and are trying to get out of their required service.
Garance Franke-Ruta: Miller's Moment (The American Prospect. Posted on alternet.org)
George Miller is the most important Democratic tactician you've never heard of. In the past year, there has been precisely one lengthy profile of him inside Washington, and none in any of the major national papers. And yet, in an environment where Democrats have been almost wholly stymied by the Republicans' iron grip on power, Miller has repeatedly come up with innovative ways to defend progressive interests.
James Fallows: Bush's Lost Year (October 2004; theatlantic.com)
By deciding to invade Iraq, the Bush Administration decided not to do many other things: not to reconstruct Afghanistan, not to deal with the threats posed by North Korea and Iran, and not to wage an effective war on terror. An inventory of opportunities lost
Purple Gene's review of "Kill Bill: Vol.3" (2006) or "Bill O'Reilly appears on the David Letterman Show and gets murdered" (1/3/06):
Quentin Tarantino Directed "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" and "Kill Bill: Vol. 2"….last night on the "Late Show" with David Letterman (1/3/06) I observed "Kill Bill: Vol. 3" ! I'm speaking of the outright delicious destruction of the biggest "dick" in broadcasting….Bill "no Spin" O'Reilly…the FOX News nitwit neocon nabob of nastiness. But let's go back for a minute to remember the first 2 installments…..
"Kill Bill: Vol. 1" ….. Al Franken destroys O'Reilly !
Al Franken wrote a book called "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them….A Fair and Balanced look at the Right" ! In the process of going to publication, Al publicly asked Bill O'Reilly…"….if he could supply him with a better photo for the cover….anything with your mouth open…". At the same time , Al questioned Bill's claim of having received 2 Peabody Awards. Well this caused a storm of O'Reilly vitriole and vile epithets…culminating in Bill getting his lawyers to sue for stopping the publication of Al's book……big mistake…..the judge threw out Bill's lawsuit…based on "Freedom of Speech" and Al's book went to # 1…with a bullet….Kill Bill: Vol. 1" !!
"Kill Bill: Vol. 2"…..Jon Stewart destroys O'Reilly !
It started with a little left jab…right jab combination….Jon Stewart goes on the "Factor" and Bill O'Reilly calls the Daily Show audience.."A bunch of drunken stoned slackers"!
To which "Jon" on the spot retorts statistics that prove his audience is smarter and more informed than Bill's. Then O'Reilly goes on the Daily Show and calls Jon a "Pinhead" to which Jon asks…"Still eating "Freedom Fries" ..Bill ?" It all heated up with Bill O'Reilly's phony FOX "War on Christmas" ! In spouting about attacks on "Merry Christmas" monikers…Bill called Jon Stewarts Network… "Secular Central" rather than "Comedy Central" and Jon conceded that they call themselves.."Godless Central" ! Then Stewart responded to O'Reilly's rhetoric about the "Enemies of Christmas"…. He said " I'm your enemy….make me your enemy. I, Jon Stewart, hate Christmas, Jews, Morality, and I will not rest until every year families gather to spend December 25th together at Osama's Homo-abortion-pot-and-Commie-JizzPorium"!!! "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" !!
I had hoped for fireworks on the Late Show….David Letterman was having Bill O'Reilly on as his guest. Bill swaggered out, sat down and after very little niceties, Dave said " Still like George Bush and his Boys?" O'Reilly started talking about the "War on Terror" and Dave asks.. "Bill, have you lost a "loved one" in Iraq ?" To which Bill replies "No !" Dave says "Then why don't you stop picking on poor Cindy Sheehan ?"
After 10 minutes of very pointed jabs.. Dave says "Bill, I think that about 60% of what you say is CRAP !" "Kill Bill: Vol. 3" !!
Purple Gene gives diabolical Dave 10 really bad front teeth out of 10 for sinking his bi-cuspids into Bill O'Reilly! I expect a "Kill Bill: Vol. 4" in the near future !
Poor old Jo, the (lucky) lizard hadn't seen sun or been outside in 4 days (that's a record).
Talked to dear old Dad - the Penn State/Florida football game kept him up way past his bedtime. That made him a bit cranky - but no where near as cranky as he'd have been if Penn State had lost.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Felicity Huffman and Anthony Hamilton.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Don Rickles, Emily Mortimer, and Aimee Mann.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Will & Grace', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Four Kings', then a FRESH'My Name Is Earl', followed by a FRESH'The Office', then a FRESH'ER'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Will Ferrell and Flipsyde.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Allan Covert and Tom Papa.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 12/13/05) are Jennifer Love Hewitt and Spoon.
ABC starts the night with the SEASON PREMIERE'Dancing With The Stars', followed by 'Primetime'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel is John Mayer Trio.
The WB offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Beauty & The Geek'.
Faux fills the night with the movie 'The Hot Chick'.
UPN has a RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by a RERUN'Love, Inc.', then a RERUN'Eve', followed by a RERUN'Cuts'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', still another 'The First 48', and 'Dallas SWAT'.
AMC offers the movie 'Von Ryan's Express', followed by the movie 'A Bridge Too Far', then the movie 'The Big Red One'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How Not to Be Seen;
[2:40pm] 'Blackadder' - Beer;
[3:20pm] 'Blackadder' - Chains;
[4pm] 'At Home with the Braithwaites' - Episode 6;
[5pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 6;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 10;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 36;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Pile;
[9pm] 'Touching Evil' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - How Not to Be Seen;
[11:40pm] 'The Catherine Tate Show '- Episode 5;
[12:20am] 'The Catherine Tate Show' - Episode 6;
[1am] 'Touching Evil' - Episode 1;
[3am] 'The Persuaders' - Element of Risk;
[4am] 'The Persuaders' - A Home of One's Own;
[5am] 'The Persuaders' - Five Miles to Midnight;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Kristi Yamaguchi Friends & Family', and 'Project Runway'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents', 'Reno 911!', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', and in incredibly poor taste, 'Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Pierce Brosnan.
On a RERUNColbert Report is Mark Cuban.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'World Trade Center: Rise & Fall', and 'Declassified'.
IFC -
[6AM] Buffalo Soldiers (2001);
[7:45AM] The King Is Alive (2000);
[9:45AM] Joe The King (1999);
[11:30AM] At the IFC Center #9 (1642);
[12PM] Last Orders (2001);
[2PM] IFC Short Film Collection II: December (2005);
[4PM] Secret Ballot (2001);
[6PM] Last Orders (2001);
[8PM] Baad Asssss Cinema (2003);
[9PM] Side Streets (1998);
[11PM] This Is Spinal Tap (1984);
[12:30AM] Before Night Falls (2000);
[3AM] This Is Spinal Tap (1984). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Dragonheart', followed by the movie 'Dragon Storm'.
Sundance -
[8AM] Comfort and Joy;
[10AM] Resisting Paradise;
[11:20AM] Pi;
[12:45PM] It's All About Love;
[2:30PM] Stealing The Fire;
[4:05PM] Comfort and Joy;
[6PM] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: London Calling;
[6:30PM] In Short: Festival 1;
[7PM] Ryan;
[7:15PM] Coldblooded;
[9PM] The Beat;
[10:30PM] In Short: Festival 5;
[11PM] Iconoclasts: Ford on Koons;
[11:45PM] Ryan;
[12AM] Coldblooded;
[1:35AM] Party Monster;
[3:15AM] The Same River Twice;
[4:35AM] Walker. (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor Samuel L. Jackson looks toward spectators before teeing off on the 10th hole at the Mercedes Championships in Kapalua, Hawaii, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006.
Photo by Jeff Chiu
American singer and activist Harry Belafonte praised the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday for providing cheap home heating oil to poverty-stricken families in the United States.
"This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit," said Belafonte, who was visiting Venezuela with a delegation of civil rights activists.
Venezuela's state-run oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, and its Houston-based affiliate, Citgo Petroleum Corp., are providing more than 20 million gallons of heating oil with a 40 percent discount from market rates to poor families living in Massachusetts and New York.
The fuel assistance deals have generated controversy because of tensions between Washington and Chavez, who has denounced U.S. resident George W. Bush and U.S.-style capitalism.
The home of the late singer Johnny Cash has been purchased by another singer with a distinctive voice.
Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and his wife, Linda, bought the house for an undisclosed amount, an attorney for the Cash family said Wednesday.
The Gibbs plan to restore the rustic retreat on Old Hickory Lake where Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived during their entire marriage. Hendersonville is 13 miles northeast of downtown Nashville.
"This place will always be the spiritual home for the Cashes," Barry Gibb said in a statement. "My wife, Linda, and I are determined to preserve it, to honor their memory. We fell in love with it; it's an incredible honor for us. We plan to use the home to write songs because of the musical inspiration."
The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty in New York Wednesday Jan. 4, 2006. The Statue of Liberty, China's Great Wall, the Stonehenge monoliths in England, and the Sydney Opera House are among 21 candidate sites to be named the new seven wonders of the world said organizers of the Zurich based New 7 Wonders of the World Campaign. Voting to pick seven names from those 21 started on the Internet on Sunday.
Photo by Peter Morgan
Rapper turned actress, singer, spokeswoman and producer Queen Latifah on Wednesday became the first hip-hop artist crowned with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"I think the reason I am here is to inspire African-American women who are rappers, full-figured women to know that they can do it too," Latifah, 35, said at the unveiling of the sidewalk's 2,298th star.
Honorary Mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant sent his regards from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he was delayed after entertaining American troops.
At least 63 journalists were killed around the world in 2005 -- the highest toll in more than a decade -- with Iraq again the deadliest country, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday.
In its annual report, RSF said 24 journalists were killed in Iraq in 2005. The overall world toll was the highest since 1995 and up from 53 in 2004.
The watchdog said 76 journalists and media assistants have been killed in Iraq since the start of the fighting, more than in the 1955-75 Vietnam War.
Five people working for Reuters in Iraq have been killed since the start of the U.S. invasion in March 2003. Four of them were killed by U.S. forces, and one was killed in a car accident.
Pete Townshend has warned iPod users they may face hearing problems if they don't turn down the volume.
Townshend, guitarist in '60s rock band The Who, said his hearing has been irreversibly damaged by years of using studio headphones and he must now take 36-hour breaks between recording sessions.
"Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired," he said on his Web site. "If you use an iPod or anything like it, or your child uses one, you MAY be OK. ... But my intuition tells me there is terrible trouble ahead."
The Blue Man Group is featured in the back of a bus Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006, outside the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
Mira Sorvino, who won an Oscar for her role in Woody Allen's 1995 film, "Mighty Aphrodite," is expecting her second child with husband Chris Backus.
The couple's first child, Mattea Angel, was born in November 2004. The 38-year-old actress and Backus, a 24-year-old actor, were married in June of that year.
Ted Koppel has joined the Discovery Channel to make news documentaries, bringing his former top producer and eight other ex-"Nightline" staff members, the cable channel announced Wednesday.
Koppel was named managing editor of Discovery, and his first program for the network is due next fall.
Koppel will host and produce long-form programming examining major global topics and events exclusively for Discovery, said network President Billy Campbell. Discovery is available in more than 90 million of the nation's 110 million homes.
Nick Nolte has successfully completed probation ordered after his 2002 no contest plea to a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of drugs, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Nolte was present at the hearing before Judge Lawrence Mira.
"I'm about to do `Pride and Glory,' a film in New York with Colin Farrell, and he'll just be coming out of rehab so he'll have a lot of support (from me)," the 64-year-old actor told syndicated TV show "The Insider" outside court.
A boy walks next to a giant model made of ice in a park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province January 4, 2006. Harbin will hold its annual Ice and Snow festival, followed by other winter activities starting on Thursday.
Photo by Nir Elias
They're on, they're off, and apparently, they're off. Lawyers for Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards filed legal papers Wednesday asking a private judge to handle the couple's divorce, Sheen's publicist said.
The papers, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, requested that the case be taken out of court and assigned to retired commissioner Jill S. Robbins.
Fans of legendary cabaret singer Bobby Short, who played for more than three decades at New York's Carlyle Hotel, will have a chance to buy his piano at an auction of the late singer's possessions in February.
Christie's auction house said it was selling the contents of the three-bedroom apartment that Short lived in on New York's Upper East Side. Personal items like cuff links and his Bechstein black lacquer grand piano, estimated to fetch between $30,000 and $40,000, will be on the block on February 16.
Short, an icon of old-world style, died in March at age 80. A quintessential New Yorker, Short was featured in a scene in Woody Allen's film "Hannah and Her Sisters," and was still playing the Carlyle until shortly before his death.
Two paintings purportedly by 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt, which were on display in a state museum in Portugal for 25 years, have been determined to be fakes, the museum's director said.
The two oil paintings -- one a supposed self-portrait of the painter and the other a depiction of a friend of his -- were donated to the municipal museum of the southern city of Faro in 1944 by Portuguese diplomat Amadeu Ferreira de Almeida.
They were on display between 1973 and 1998 at the museum, which was visited by some 22,000 people last year, despite doubts over their authenticity, museum director Dalia Paulo told AFP.
But last year the museum finally set aside funds to test the paintings and experts concluded they could not have been painted by Rembrandt because they used pigments that only became available in the 19th century, she added.
A member of the Cirque du Soleil group perform during a final dress rehearsal for 'Alegria' at the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, London January 4, 2006. The touring international cast of acrobats, dancers, actors and musicians from 13 countries perform a baroque blend of aerial acts and dances for their tenth annual run in London.
Photo by Toby Melville
An Italian court is tackling Jesus -- and whether the Roman Catholic Church may be breaking the law by teaching that he existed 2,000 years ago.
The case pits against each other two men in their 70s, who are from the same central Italian town and even went to the same seminary school in their teenage years.
The defendant, Enrico Righi, went on to become a priest writing for the parish newspaper.
The plaintiff, Luigi Cascioli, became a vocal atheist who, after years of legal wrangling, is set to get his day in court later this month.
Cascioli says Righi, and by extension the whole Church, broke two Italian laws. The first is "Abuso di Credulita Popolare" (Abuse of Popular Belief) meant to protect people against being swindled or conned. The second crime, he says, is "Sostituzione di Persona", or impersonation.
Researchers at a Missouri university have identified the largest known prime number, officials said Tuesday.
The team at Central Missouri State University, led by associate dean Steven Boone and mathematics professor Curtis Cooper, found it in mid-December after programming 700 computers years ago.
A prime number is a positive number divisible by only itself and 1 - 2, 3, 5, 7 and so on.
The number that the team found is 9.1 million digits long. It is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457 - that's 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1.
Chinese workers give finishing touches to a giant sculpture of a church made of snow in a park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province January 4, 2006. Harbin will hold its annual Ice and Snow festival followed by other winter activities starting Thursday.
Photo by Nir Elias
At least one of the outlets that sold tickets to the canceled New Year's Eve party featuring the Black Eyed Peas and other bands is offering a refund, it was announced Tuesday.
Groovetickets said anyone who bought a ticket to the Giant Village event will be eligible for a refund of the face value of the ticket or for a "make up events package consisting of multiple events of greater value."
Ticket holders were given a Thursday deadline to e-mail the company requesting a refund or exchange.
As many as 20,000 people were left in the lurch when the Saturday concert in Los Angeles was canceled for weather-related reasons. Tickets sold for $85 or more.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Dec. 26-Jan. 1. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (1) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 17.6 million viewers.
2. (7) "NFL Monday Night Football: New England Patriots at N.Y. Jets," ABC, 14.4 million viewers.
3. (18) "NFL Monday Showcase," ABC, 13.3 million viewers.
4. (X) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 12.9 million viewers.
5. (32) "The OT," Fox, 12.8 million viewers.
6. (X) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 12.4 million viewers.
7. (9) "NCIS," CBS, 12.2 million viewers.
8. (X) "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 12.1 million viewers.
9. (3) "Without a Trace," CBS, 11.7 million viewers.
10. (15) "CSI: N.Y.," CBS, 11.5 million viewers.
11. (X) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 11.5 million viewers.
12. (X) "Cold Case," CBS, 11 million viewers.
13. (X) "Kennedy Center Honors," CBS, 10.9 million viewers.
14. (X) "In Justice," ABC, 10.5 million viewers.
15. (19) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 10.4 million viewers.
16. (X) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 10.1 million viewers.
17. (13) "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 9.9 million viewers.
18. (X) "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.9 million viewers.
19. (29) "Numb3rs," CBS, 9.8 million viewers.
20. (X) "Out Of Practice," CBS, 9.5 million viewers.
An African giraffe, Mas Sura, licks its four-day-old baby at Malaysia's National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur January 3, 2006. Standing at 1.2 metres (four feet) and weighing 40kg (90 lb) at birth the baby giraffe was born on Friday, becoming the 11th African giraffe in the zoo.
Photo by Bazuki Muhammad
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